Fear and loathing in a nation behind a mask
Alan Jones The Daily Telegraph July 7, 2021
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The public anger manifesting itself in the handling of coronavirus, vaccines and quarantine is coming to a crescendo. Draconian measures, locking people away from one another, increased police brutality and the encouragement to “dob” one another in are completely eroding public trust. Grant from Sydney sums it up: “We have Health Chiefs out of their depth, shooting from their hip, on a whim and their Premiers following like lap dogs. What a mess.”
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Patrick from Geelong says: “I never thought I’d see Police act like this in Australia (a reference to the Bowral disgrace last week). We are truly declining. I fear for our nation’s future.”
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In abandoning our commitment to basic freedoms, democracy has lost its way.
Government is meant to be by the people, for the people, not by brazen, defiant know-alls parading themselves as politicians.
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Gladys Berejiklian said in May, of NSW, that she had “made sure” that the state had “the systems in place to be able to weather whatever came our way so that we wouldn’t ever go into lockdown again’’.
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A new cluster forms and she presses the lockdown button; and now defiantly presses it again, so millions of Sydney people face another week in lockdown.
The metaphor of that farce is the Sydney Opera House.
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A builder has tested positive, so the whole place is shut down and guarded by police.
Continued below the fold.
Covid, the “only disease in history that no Australian is allowed to catch”
Is Australia’s health dictatorship starting to crack?
Up to 44,000 people each year in Australia “killed or maimed by their doctors & nurses”, but don’t you dare die of Covid. Can’t have that. Let’s lock down some more.
Terry McCrann The Australian July 7, 2021
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Is the dictatorship of the chief health officers across Australia on the verge of breaking down? After a wobbly start back in February last year when the prime minister – very briefly – seemed to be in command when he closed the international border, first to China and then to the world, every state and territory and so the entire nation by default has been under the iron grip of a cabal of CHOs.
For more than 15 months, their word has been quite literally law – backed up and enforced by states of emergency which have given governments authoritarian powers, which they have executed with relish, all as never before seen in Australia in peacetime.
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There has been only one target – eliminate the virus – at quite literally any cost in terms of both financial and other health consequences.
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Each decision to destroy jobs and businesses, and sacrifice mental and (other) physical health has been rationalised and justified on the basis of “following the – always undisclosed – health advice”.
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That’s to say, bluntly, when a CHO said “jump”, political government responded “how high” – and, “for how long”.
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Maybe the first crack in the CHO iron grip went more substantively unappreciated, albeit widely mocked at the time, when a month ago SA’s CHO Prof Nicola Spurrier warned “not to touch the football”.
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That did not get turned into a SA government order, backed up by on-the-spot fines. That seems to have been the first, and first clearly disclosed, “health advice” not followed.
